Israel Forced To Apologise To Japan Over Offensive Hiroshima Comments

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10. Diplomacy aside, there's the matter of overall cultural attitude.

And you know, reading that article and "informing myself with facts" ain't proving your case all that well: "In October 2006, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's apology was followed on the same day by a group of 80 Japanese lawmakers' visit to the Yasukuni Shrine which enshrines more than 1000 convicted war criminals. Two years after the apology, Shinzo Abe also denied that the Imperial Japanese military had forced comfort women into sexual slavery during World War II . In addition, Prime Minister Abe claimed that the Class A war criminals "are not war criminals under the laws of Japan". He also casted doubt on Murayama apology by saying, "The Abe Cabinet is not necessarily keeping to it" and by questioning the definition used in the apology by saying, "There is no definitive answer either in academia or in the international community on what constitutes aggression. Things that happen between countries appear different depending on which side you're looking from.""

I mean, Jesus Christ, the PRIME MINISTER was talking like this. Imagine Angela Merkel going around saying that, for example, Rudolf Hoess was not a war criminal under the laws of Germany at the time (Technically true!).

And it's not like Japan has taken a page from Germany's book and built a huge memorial to its misdeeds in its own capital city.

Saying that Japan's government has been "Exactly apologetic" wildly overvalues diplomatic niceties. If I publicly apologize to someone for breaking into their house, stealing their jewelry, and shooting their dog, the "sincerity" of my apology would be somewhat muted if I went back home and threw a loud party celebrating my glorious adventures in their house.